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sjcarpediem Jun. 15th, 2010 11:39 pm)
sjcarpediem Jun. 15th, 2010 11:39 pm)Rainy, 18C (21C)
So thinking on it some more I was able to remember times I felt good as a person--they basically all revolve around demonstrated growth. Which is not really a middah, persay, so maybe I got the exercise wrong ; but that's what I'm going with for now.
I've got lots of plans at the moment ; I would try to be humble or realistic and hope to accomplish half of them, but really I want them all.
I'm watching Full Metal Alchemist : Brotherhood, now. It's awesomely exciting.
Also, maybe I'll try to go from Shanghai to Xi'an via a southerly route around Golden Week next year. I could try my hand at a few Mandarin travel phrases.... Or something like that.
I'm testing Amazon.jp with an order of three books--I'm excited about reading them!
So far, all's clear with plans for Kanazawa at the end of next month.
This weekend I want to go back to Nara if the weather should be clear. Next weekend I want another soak in Arima hotsprings. I feel like my guts were improved a little since then. I've been hungry more times in the last two weeks than in the six months before...**
I found a proper desk and chair; now I just need to bite the bullet and buy them. So I can grow more. And more and more and more!
I also need to get some cosmetics, though. And in July I want to rejoin the go class (although I haven't been playing...).
In August I have to pay some back taxes to Kawanoe, though, plus everything else--and I still don't know for certain if I actually have a job then, or how much it pays.
mataku not having enough money really stinks....
Anyway, my average sleep over the last thirty days per night was at a whopping 8h21m yesterday, today it's 8h14m. Completely fucking ridiculous. But then, again, body is stupid. The average will be messed up for another month and a half, I'm sure, just because. I'll get the balance out of it later.
**I have a theory about my appetite but I've stopped myself writing about it a few times, now, as people from the first world aren't supposed to have those sorts of experiences.
On an aside, writing my fictionalized autobiography was becoming somewhat traumatic so I took a little break. I really think I need to base it in some historical-esque period or make it more fantasy-like in order for even my idealized version of my life to be more plausible... sasuga the spawn of the fish god and the god of wind, I guess...
So thinking on it some more I was able to remember times I felt good as a person--they basically all revolve around demonstrated growth. Which is not really a middah, persay, so maybe I got the exercise wrong ; but that's what I'm going with for now.
I've got lots of plans at the moment ; I would try to be humble or realistic and hope to accomplish half of them, but really I want them all.
I'm watching Full Metal Alchemist : Brotherhood, now. It's awesomely exciting.
Also, maybe I'll try to go from Shanghai to Xi'an via a southerly route around Golden Week next year. I could try my hand at a few Mandarin travel phrases.... Or something like that.
I'm testing Amazon.jp with an order of three books--I'm excited about reading them!
So far, all's clear with plans for Kanazawa at the end of next month.
This weekend I want to go back to Nara if the weather should be clear. Next weekend I want another soak in Arima hotsprings. I feel like my guts were improved a little since then. I've been hungry more times in the last two weeks than in the six months before...**
I found a proper desk and chair; now I just need to bite the bullet and buy them. So I can grow more. And more and more and more!
I also need to get some cosmetics, though. And in July I want to rejoin the go class (although I haven't been playing...).
In August I have to pay some back taxes to Kawanoe, though, plus everything else--and I still don't know for certain if I actually have a job then, or how much it pays.
mataku not having enough money really stinks....
Anyway, my average sleep over the last thirty days per night was at a whopping 8h21m yesterday, today it's 8h14m. Completely fucking ridiculous. But then, again, body is stupid. The average will be messed up for another month and a half, I'm sure, just because. I'll get the balance out of it later.
**I have a theory about my appetite but I've stopped myself writing about it a few times, now, as people from the first world aren't supposed to have those sorts of experiences.
On an aside, writing my fictionalized autobiography was becoming somewhat traumatic so I took a little break. I really think I need to base it in some historical-esque period or make it more fantasy-like in order for even my idealized version of my life to be more plausible... sasuga the spawn of the fish god and the god of wind, I guess...
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Also, when you get back to Malaysia, if you pick up French again I can help with that...
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I'm only on ep 61, though....
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It is a much more grown-up flavor, I think ; the tragedies are indeed tragic, but they're not all explained so well. Having seen the first version does help a lot with understanding things with characters like Yoki, Nana, and Barry the Slasher... There are other characters which add interesting twists, like May and a much-expanded Armstrong's-older-sister and other exciting things with Hohenheim that I WILL NOT SPOIL SO HURRY UP AND WATCH MORE. While some arcs are just missing--like the mining town with "tuberculosis-like-disease", and the whole old-woman-in-the-house-in-the-woods thing...
Anyway, I think it's very exciting and the story seems much richer--so it's far less arc-like and episodic than the original ; just be prepared. And have a backlog of episodes on standby so you can watch through a particularly dramatic part (!!).
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In that case! I think you should also watch the first version so you can compare. This is canon!
I don't plan to read the manga just because I'm contrary like that, but I'm very impressed with the story's rendition in Brotherhood.
Speaking of manga, wasn't the last chapter (158, I think) of Skip Beat disappointing? Seriously, nothing worthwhile happened...
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INDEED. He attacked, yes--but I WANT TO SEE CONSEQUENCES DAMNIT
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