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Nano snippet #2:

( He lifted up the rest... )

So I've been using this nifty little tool called WRITE OR DIE which essentially flashes red in two seconds if you stop writing (and if you keep not writing after that, the red, which begins pinkish, turns darker and darker and if you STILL don't write, a foghorn thing starts blowing!).

...anyway I write some of the weirdest things when under pressure.

You know, when you have about 3 seconds you can't choose, you just go with the first image that comes into your mind, eh? And the first image that came into my mind about late-night Shinjuku were those neatly dressed boys with golden jewelry and bleached hair lounging about the streets of Kabuki-cho chatting with each other and politely soliciting customers with their flyers. So now my character is sitting in a Host Club for the first time in his life, and the whole inventing-by-the-fly is getting even worse because all I really know about the inside of Host Clubs is from Ouran, and that really doesn't count.

Also, I did not just steal the idea of peppermint from Maya. I did not, I did not, I did not...

(Admittedly it is for a completely different purpose? ish.)

Most of my Nano makes my eyes bleed! So I'll just be posting really short bits of the clips that I happen to like, hahaha.

( SQUAWK SQUAWK )

Yay chicken! That bit was actually kind of fun to write. Only because I enjoy making people feel stupid. Harharhar.

Hi guys.

It's 2009, I'm in Japan, and as something I neglected to do in 2008 (and 2007), this year I am going to try to tackle NaNo seriously!!

It's November, I've got 2000 words down, which is too few because it's a precious WEEKEND WHEN AM I GOING TO GET ANY OTHER TIME TO GET A HEAD START AHHHHHHHHHHH but that is not the point of this post.

I found my NaNo 2006. Again. Now, this is something I haven't posted for 3 years because 2006 was my first year doing NaNo, I was a silly freshman, and I wrote a story chock full of inside jokes and I was afraid that posting it would offend people. TBH it isn't really a story, it's just full of a setup for a story that never got written, hahaha. But now that the chatgroup is, whut, dead and gone, at least I don't even remember half of the jokes we had from 2006 (they keep changing!), I can probably say for certain that this is something I will never finish!

So, here it is. I'm sure we've all grown enough in three years not to get offended over silliness from three years ago? (a.k.a. DON'T KILL MEEEEEEEE~)

Warning: It's pretty terrible. I never went back to edit, so it's stuffed with random skipping and notes incomprehensible to me now and a lot of it makes me cringe in my seat (like... the bits about myself AUGH LET ME DIE NOW) - but some of it still cracks me up. Like the first Tiffany cow entrance. HARHARHAR. So have a laugh, guys!

( A long, long time ago... )

所以前幾天我忽然想起郭媽媽積極推薦的那位(親戚?)歌手,ひろみ（沋美?洸美?)ちゃん

今天去看了她的live performance,不錯耶~
聲音很好聽~~
比我們前幾天去聽的那幾個band好多了
不瞞你說,那天有幾個吉他手還矕利害的
可是歌手超~~~爛!!!

哎呀我錄了好多打算上載的,也遲遲沒放上來
其實我不是太忙
最近在看日劇!
花より男子 :D
看日劇也用電腦嗎．．．所以一上電腦就直接去看,不理上載下載什麼了

最近看完了
所以現在才會來blog
哈哈

ㄇ反正說
ひろみ的聲音很強,而且有深度,range也不錯
雖然有時候音不太準
哈哈其實她第一條我有這麼想(音準的說)
可是不知道是不是我的幻覺,而且批評人家也不禮貌吧
結果碰到ひろみ的時候她自己這麼說!
我好高興
耳朵還沒退化耶

當然來這裡是會時不時拉大提琴啦
而且星期１到５至少四天放課後會去801號玩鋼琴

阿我快把rach 2的前五頁玩會了喔!
說前五頁,不過是score
所以其實只算是前五行吧
可這樣也不錯啊
超~~~愛rachmaninoff!! ^o^

話說回來
ひろみ還是比之前的那些歌手都利害
有一個歌手居然唱sk8er boi!
can you believe it!?
我一直笑一直笑，差點笑死
站在我旁邊的朋友臉好白好白，都快哭了
這就算是哭笑不得...吧
不會英文就不要唱呀
呀哈哈

唉令我想念起樂隊的好朋友
wooho假如在場,必定猛作苦瓜死人臉,很不禮貌的拽著我就想奪門而逃
呀哈哈
其實根本不需要像他耳朵那麼尖的
tiffany一定也歪鼻子皺眉頭
walter會做出一副無可奈何的表情
呀小connor在的話,一定猛比手勢,假裝自己被掐死射死
嘿嘿我看他長大也是一個死不正經的
唉可是在場的日文同學們,還是不一樣
到了最後，他們還是說：不錯呀！

最後那個band不是真的聽起來不錯
只是超有精神，很會甩頭髮
令我想起跟panda的談話 － 被stage presence騙了啊！雖然stage presence也很重要...
他們CD上同樣兩首倒是音很準
一定加工過

這禮拜五還要跟dorm的朋友再去喔
哈哈我不是去聽的
我是去看可愛日本男孩甩頭髮的
不過他頭髮那麼多，其實不知道真的可愛不可愛（看不到臉）

下次ひろみ唱歌，我就真正是去聽的
（當然ひろみ也很可愛啦）

ㄇ廢話這麼多，大家讀溺了沒？我也寫累了喲

じゃ、またね～


（下次發誓一定上載照片！）

Aw man.

I was having that awesome dream about rocking out on guitar to that super duper ridiculous outer space version of Rockband (which I've only ever dreamt about once before) when my stupid alarm clock woke me up!

And I was sure I hit dismiss and not snooze but 5 minutes later as I was trying to fall back into the dream it woke me up again.

残念です...

edit: also the reason I haven't updated much is

1. I'm busy

2. I've become addicted to watching jdramas (Debra would approve!!)

and

3. it seems pointless to update in Japanese

mostly the first two haha. life in japan is too much fun! some people may be interested to learn that I attended a church (while remaining utterly atheist). church kids are hecka nice though, even if I don't agree with half of what they say...

真的用中文想比較容易哩 以後再翻譯吧...

(maybe以後還能用日文打喔)

今天禮拜六放假,整天窩在宿舍裡(洗衣煮飯之類)
一直到下午五點左右才跑出去
要買stationary啊

新宿晚上真漂亮



哈哈這不是五點照的,是後來照的



anyway 我看到 歌舞妓廳一番街 好像很好玩
就跑進去混一混
反正時間還很多嗎



一番街(從裡朝外照)

走啊走啊
看到兩位女孩在一個很大的open air廣場台子上!



我停下來看她們在幹什麼



結果她們開始高歌!
唱一首いいじゃない、いいじゃない的歌
也不知道是什麼意思(不是よくない嗎?)

沒錄到歌不過有錄到後面的致詞 待會上載

繼續走,看到一所 'まんが喫茶 ゲラゲラ' 好奇心上來,就進去看看



哇!

我的最愛~~

用破日語跟櫃檯小姐纏了個半天,總算搞清楚是走時付錢
半小時才兩塊多美金喔
她給我看一張有四個格子的照片,我隨便選了一個,她就帶我來這裡



我是第十五號房



哇開玩笑美國的cafe那裡有這麼舒服??
本來只打算待半小時的,改變主意決定待一整小時

反正我讀日文漫畫超慢...就到處亂逛

有免錢的飲料耶



還有...



免錢的冰淇淋!!!



耶~~

我至少吃了三個冰淇淋
吃到後來有點嘔
哈哈



ㄇ還有免錢網路
上面有遊戲喔



(不會讀日文的話,final fantasy至少認得吧)

我試了一下internet,還蠻快的

另外可以選擇的地方有這種



和這種



對不起第一張有點模糊
我不想讓人知道我在照照片(鄉巴佬!!)所以用ninja特技,palm了camera走過時偷照的

第二張有點黑,不過地下是很舒服的軟座位喔!像bean bag那種.

不知道第四種座位是什麼,下次回去看吧

所以我吃著冰淇淋,快樂的看美麗的圖片閱讀 琴之森16 與 スイッチ13
都是別處(read: book off)沒能找到的漫畫喔!
十成讀不到一成,以後要回去慢慢鑽研

一小時之後離開,得了好幾個coupon :D

回到街上,發現之前女孩唱歌的地方變成kabuki派對了



看到麥當勞，就跑去吃了個晚餐(也好對照對照)
他們超快！
我一手交錢，真的就一手交貨
而且我點的不單是漢堡，是一整餐呢



味道呢，跟世界上所有的麥當勞差不了多少吧

後來去了那家超大的百元超市，買了stationary
一天快樂的結束！^^

Hi all.

I think I have what can be termed an internet addiction.

But I've known this since middle school haha.

Anyway I am now in my dorm!

I can't post pictures yet because it's extremely messy and my family would yell at me (... =.=).

But I have one thing to say.

百円shopはみんなの一番友達！！

I got enough food to last me 2-4 days (depending on how frugal I am).

And it cost me less than 20$...

///

I don't know where all my dormmates have gone.

They're all Americans.

Well the ones I know are.

Because... you guessed it, they picked up the Americans in a group!

They all band together.

I don't really want to band together with them, because what's the point of living inside a mini-America?

Besides, the America I'm used to is 50% Asian hahaha.

I don't really like the rules of this dorm though.

No visitors, period.

So you can't invite any classmates over.

Also my classmates are almost entirely Korean.

We had self-introduction yesterday and all their names were like: Park Jung-Sook, Kim Soong-Min, Kim Hwa-Yoong, Kim Hwa-Choo... I have no idea who is who.

Why am I surrounded by Koreans no matter where I go!?

///

Additional funny story.

It seems like Aiden Kuo (Mr Kuo's son) wanted Taiwanese sweets really badly.

(Okay, to be fair, his photos were there too.)

We had a conversation that went something like this:

(convo, condensed version)
AIDEN: Can I go find you tomorrow?
AIDEN: Actually, can I come now?
ME: Uh, now? <- 10PM, curfew is 11
AIDEN: Yeah. You have a phone?
ME: ...no. Hold on a moment.

I run around looking for our dorm manager, who's currently all over the place because today is settle-in day. She's nowhere to be found, so I return to the computer.

ME: Hey, dorm manager's pretty busy.
ME: The only phone here is her cell, and calling her might not be a good idea because she might not be around.
ME: Why don't you set a time?

That's when I notice another screen flashing on my computer. It's Mr Kuo!

KUO: Hi Adela. Aiden's already left to find you, so just give me the phone number and I'll tell him.
ME: But there is no phone number...

So our dorm also happens to be in a totally out-of-the-way corner, and Aiden got lost and couldn't find it until nearly midnight, and I had to pass his sweets to him over the wall.

hahahaha.

Off to cook myself lunch!

edit: I would really like to wash my shoes, but then I won't be able to go out for the rest of the day. What to do...

Hey all! I am now in JAPAN, land of the... Japanese.

( images below cut )

bum, buh-run-run, bum bum bum bummmm, bum buh-run-ruun, bum bummm rummm... buh, buh-run-run, buh, buh-run-run, buh, buh-run-run, bum trilllllll bum

...that's like. My four favoritest measures of Lalo. I don't really care about the rest hahahaha

yeahhhh just felt like sharing that for some reason :P

Dear Livejournal,

I wanted to write this entry in Chinese, because I think in Chinese over here. But I discovered that thinking in Chinese is a lot faster than typing in Chinese!! Oh well.

Taipei was all about 吃喝玩樂! (haha I guess I can’t help some Chinese after all)

I watched a movie called 聽說. Chen ahyi kept saying “聽說聽說很好看!” 然後一直笑. She reminds me of my dad. No wonder they were friends... 三八 buddies yo. ^^V

I thought Chen ahyi’s son was a middle schooler when I first saw him! But it turns out he’s actually... twenty. Ahahaha. I think people in Taiwan are just short. Probably the atmosphere in Taiwan is so humid that it obstructs their growth. Or maybe all the bizarre foods do something weird to their hormones.

Speaking of bizarre foods, I had some 麻油雞 (sesame chicken??) flavored ice cream the other day. Basically, it was salty. And it tasted exactly like麻油雞. And it was ICE CREAM. EWWWWWWWWWWWW yeah don’t ever eat salty ice cream you’ll be sick. There was curry flavored too! And weird stuff like basil flavored, chrysanthemum flavored, bitter melon flavored... crazily accurate. And (in some cases) crazily gross. Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans anyone?

Chen ahyi’s daughter 超人氣的. She took me around 台大 (National Taiwan University) which was superrrr pretty. I want to study there for a semester or two when I have the time.

So the reason I thought of her was that I went to the (GROSS?) ice cream shop with her and her choir group – she does a lot of club activities – and they break out into song before every meal! hahaha weirdoes (:

Yess Taiwan is all about FOOD. Foodfoodfood. Go look up that ice cream place if you have the time, it’s called 雪王 (Snow King). The stinky tofu here is delicious! As is the aiyu and the bubble tea and the nightmarket shaved ice mmmmmmmm. I went to a restaurant other day that for the first time replicated my grandmother’s (SECRET RECIPE!!) soup almost exactly. I was incredibly impressed.

Went to a KFC, did not get chicken but got 蛋塔 yummy. Heard a story about a shop which sold a special drink called 心痛的感覺 (the taste of heartache) which costs something like 20$ USD....

...and is a cup of water.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA SUCKERS

Am stuffed to the brim with exotic fruits, packed full of gifts (srsly half my suitcase is gifts I’ll have to lug to Japan ¬.¬) and now in lovely Taichung where… I was promptly stuffed full of even more food. Don’t think I’ve eaten this well in months (better relish it before I’m off to the most expensive district in Japan T__T).

Mmmm hopefully will get a camera tomorrow or the day after. I walked all up and down the camera lane on 武昌街 and cameras here really are more expensive than in America. Who knew?

IF YOU WANT ANYTHING FROM TAIWAN TELL ME NOW. Also I refuse to take anything larger than the size of my fist, because like I said, half my suitcase is already stuffed with gifts.

Love,
Adela

PS. 哇現在用英文說話好奇怪啦 都覺得中文才是對的,對吧~ 聽到一些有關我爸媽年輕時好玩的事喲 感覺快要成為一個真正的FOB說 就差個MSN而以.

不知道到日本會不會變成日本漫畫小女生? hmm...

I always remember my dreams when I sleep too late...

+

Some sort of bizarre stuff in the beginning involving girls and public showers/toilets and a large walled in open shower (/toilets??) area which later turned into a dance-floor like place (hardwood floor) where numerous people were socializing. I can’t even make sense of it… though at one point in this dream there were these stairs, you know, the typical stairs in a building that go down a half flight, and then zigzag the other way for the next half flight

(kinda looks like this in a bird’s eye view except they’re like old/crappy fire escape stairs behind a door, you know, the type they have in hotels:

)

...and somehow as I was running down them I slipped and vaulted down through that hole between the stairs, and I fell one flight and thought I might crash land, but then I kept falling down another flight and thought I was going to die, but then I landed perfectly and kept running!!

I was so thrilled. In the dream I thought, Hell yeah!

ANYWAY the bits I remember start after a scene shift, somewhere inside a parking lot. I have a dagger, and there is the sense of imminent danger. I'm stealthily working my way through the cars, slicing off their rear view mirrors quickly and efficiently, keeping alert with my back pressed to the cars and only darting across open space when no one’s looking (like a ninja!).

The drivers of those cars now cannot leave without losing both their hands. Whoever they are, once they get into the driver’s seat of the sliced cars their hands are sliced too (??? dream logic). Some howl with pain as they leave.

I congratulate myself: don’t let a single one get out alive.

Somewhere my mother says, “No!” She is supposed to be on my side, but she is too softhearted and wants to let some of the enemies go… and now I am effectively screwed. She has told people about the cars and now they are circumventing this by not going into the cars at all.

By now I'm on the other side of the lot, where there’s an old metal trailer of some sort, and that’s about when the cops arrive. They attempt to capture me alive. There are two of them on top of the trailer, looking down through a large square space, and I am inside the trailer. I dodge and roll their attacks (I think they may've tried to use a net??), and when they withdraw briefly from view, I pull out a gun/laser that can shoot through walls and shoot up the ceiling of the trailer where I estimate them to be.

I shoot some more just to be sure, then leap out of the trailer and take off running.

Behind me they’re having some sort of hollered conversation or maybe blaring a message through loudspeakers to me, something along the lines of “Where can she/you run to?” ... I’m running along a street that looks suspiciously like Saratoga Avenue.

They seem to be thinking I don’t have very much anywhere to go (Saratoga Avenue is very straight), and then someone points out I could dart down one of the side streets and take local, in which case they’d have a hell of a time catching me, and someone else responds that they’ll still catch me in time, not sounding very worried.

My pursuers either haven’t begun pursuing me or they are on foot and much slower than me, which is a welcome relief, but that is not to say they wouldn't catch up eventually. I veer down a side street (man, this is reminiscent of a game of tag) which turns out to be a bridge overlooking a large river. I figure that'd be a brilliant way to throw them off my trail, so instead of taking any of the branching Saratoga local streets (which can’t exist on a bridge, but never mind that) I jump off and plummet two stories down into the water.

I sink a lot; when I first come up with air I realize that I’m not under the bridge yet (they can see me!) and I flap and flail, fighting the flotation, and finally manage to dive deep and swim in deep long strokes to get there. When I surface the bridge is right against my head; there are places where it’s just shallow enough for me to get my mouth up for a breath of air, but otherwise the bottom pretty much grazes the water.

I keep following the bottom of the bridge, which turns right (lol is that structurally possible) after a couple hundred feet. My pursuers weren’t diverted as I had hoped, somebody was either not easily fooled or they had seen me in the water – someone jumped in after me. I heard the splash, but they never actually turned up. Probably because I forgot about them (hahaha).

The rest is blurry. At some point I came across a large ship that belonged to my father (because it was my father who was chasing me now .__o) and was in a quandary because (I think) I was at the end of the bridge. Basically I was stuck.

…but then another large ship came by whom I gladly went away with (following them underwater and eventually going aboard the ship itself). AND THUS GOT AWAY SUCCESSFULLY, HOHOHO.

I bumped into my father and his people much much later on some little reef thing (god knows what it was) when I was with my ship’s people, but I woke up soon after that and it was never resolved.

I just had a revelation.

I love life so much right now.

And yes, I am a hopeless piano nut to the end.

edit: I would tell you what the actual revelation is, but it sounds exceedingly stupid when put into words.

I'm so goddamn sick of lying.

Why can't my mother just let me alone?

SOOO last night I dreamt that the mom of the kid I used to tutor piano in (he quit) called me and said he needed some help. So I went over and lo and behold he hadn't quit after all, he had gotten quite a sight better actually, but he didn't like the songs he had and his mom was hoping I had some pieces his level that he might be interested in.

Well I didn't have any pop that was beginner level, and then I remembered he loved Pirates so I figured I could just arrange an easy version for him! So I was sitting in front of the piano figuring that out as the kid looked on curiously...

...when I woke up and figured, why not?

SO HERE IS a super easy version of pirates for beginners, although for the love of god I don't know who would actually play this when, well, the uber cool version is so much cooler. o____o !!

DOWNLOAD LINK

Hello Adela Chang,

DM, Inc. just sent you money with PayPal.

Payment details
Amount: $35.00 USD
Transaction Date: Sep 11, 2009
Transaction ID: 5D71472613114910M
Subject: DS earnings for Sep 2009 have arrived.
Custom note: Congratulations Adela, your DS earnings for Sep 2009 have arrived!


^^

...and to think I used to be so happy with $2 for 400 words!

Title: Memories of Dreams - chapter 3
Author: Fwoom
Pairings: Kurogane/Fye
Disclaimer: CLAMP owns the characters.
Warnings: Not a happy chapter. Also heavy in Chobitsverse.
Summary: AU taking place in the world of Chobits (first chapter here), originally written for the 2008 Spring Challenge. Of course that challenge has long since ended.
Comments: chibito may not frequent livejournal any longer, but she is still my one and only beta, and I love and respect her for it.

( I felt it as soon as I woke up that day )

No dream tonight.

Two or three days ago I had a dream that I still remember vividly...

( dreamsies )

Honestly?

I am somewhat skeptical of BNFs bidding away their fanfic, even if the $$ does end up going to charity.

Somehow it just feels wrong.

Then again, hacking into a Wii is technically wrong too, but that particular practice has never bothered me much.

Maybe I'm just prejudiced because I don't like Cassandra Cla(i)re's writing.

(edit: to clarify, this isn't about Cassie Clare, but the person in question is associated with her in my mind)