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07/23/2003 Entry: ":P"

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What on earth does Augusto mean by "the blogging freak broke out"? :P Was I imprisoning some mad blogging fanatic inside my head? Or did I go outside?

I like to think that's it's neither.. I've just been schmoozing lately. ^_^

My sisters came back from Europe, yay, and they had a great time ^^ they brought me back some REALLY neat souveniors ::cackles:: One is this little wooden puppet they bought from a street vendor in Vienna [Austria].. I think it's a cross between a Chinese dragon, a dog, and horse. It's so funny!! I'm not very good with it, but I can make it laugh hysterically (I provide the voice), pick up paper, walk around, and nuzzle up to people. :P I made it stalk Stacy across the carpet (you should've seen her scooch away).. haha ^^ next time I have a party, I'm bringing it out to show people. I'd take it to school, but I'm afraid it'd get broken.

The other one they got me is this absolutely exquisite little mask from Venice ^^ It's a mardi gras porcelain mask that's beautifully handpainted.. so lovely :O I was kinda afraid to touch it. But it's beautiful :) They bought themselves some really lovely things. They bought our parents two Venesian (Venecian? from Venice, bah) wine (or is it champagne?) glasses. They're decorated in gold leaf and a very lovely, vibrant scarlet color. O.O Our mother almost broke them within five minutes of opening them, giving all three of us a heart attack. They got our dad a german beer cup :P it's really funny. (He collects cups and mugs.) Joan is a big fan of miniatures, so she got a miniature elephant and hippo made of glass (from Venice again - Venice is famous for gondolas and glass). They're SO CUTE - they're each small enough to both sit on the same key on a keyboard. They could both quite literally fit on the letter Y. I'm afraid the elephant will break - its trunk is incredibly thin.

She also bought a miniature violin, a miniature glass dolphin (again from Venice), and some other stuff. Sohyun splurged and bought herself a pearl-and-diamond necklace that's really gorgeous :O and a stuff Saint Bernard with a beer tank around its neck :P it's soo cute. I had a lot of fun looking at their souveniors.

I picked up a non-fiction book to do a report on.. it's about geisha. ^_^ Should be interesting.

Went to a key club project on monday.. we made the packets that people will have to pick up in order to register at BHS. Bleh :x we basically walked around in some odd U formation like the one below.

*Someone* I know cheated on me and didn't always give the packets that this someone created to me. :P Adulterer!
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Also at the project were all these little Korean ninth graders (now tenth) that I went to Korean school with, horrors of horrors. Earl, Kristyn, and Jessica were there too, and some other key club people ^^ maybe fifteen to begin with, but a lot of people left by hour two.

My dad was breaking up concrete in one corner of the yard the other day, and we were clearing it out to a dump truck sort of thing for maybe five hours :x the hunks of stone were really heavy (you could carry only two of the small ones at one time, and one of the large ones), it was really hot (afternoon) and very dusty (that part of the yard doesn't have any grass). Two spiders tried to kill me, but I smashed them with rocks... ^_^; it didn't help that my silly dog got out and decided to have an adventure in the alley. I thought she was gonna get hit by a car -.-; she ran all the way down the block before deciding to go back up, and I was running after her.. and it was maybe four o'clock in the afternoon and so incredibly hot ;_;

I sincerely hope no one heard me screaming at my dog that I didn't want to be arrested for butchering her. I know some people did (oops!), and the driver in the red sports car that nearly killed me did, but oh well.

I killed another spider yesterday. IT CRAWELED UP MY LEG. It gave me a heart attack while I was doing the dishes to see a spider just dancing up my left leg... I screamed, grabbed a paper towel, and snatched up the spider, and my dad told me I was being too noisy.

I am so unloved.

I've been playing Smash Bros. Melee still :x I think there are a total of 300 trophies in this game, but I only have maybe 247? I've gotten all the character trophies, but I'm still missing a lot.. where on earth do I get them now? ?_? Speaking of which, I want a new GameCube game ^^ I'm approaching a time where I might actually be bored, which I don't think I've been for years now. Pikmin!! ::cackles:: Yes, slaves, I must have slaves.... [for those who don't know, the premise of Pikmin is that you are a spaceman that crashlands on a foreign planet who has 30 days to rebuild the spaceship and get out before your oxygen runs out. ^^ To help you, you plant these Pikmin, and when you pull them out of the soil, you can command them to your bidding. Literally. You can make them carry you on their shoulders. It's really, really funny :P]

Pirates of the Caribbean apparently had the lowest percentage drop from weekend one to weekend two of all movies this year ^^ my sister said that's doing "insanely well", which I guess she would know since she's been tracking box office trends since she's been watching movies. I'm glad :) I liked Pirates a lot. I just hope this doesn't inspire Disney to also make movies out of Splash Mountain, Space Mountain, Matterhorn, etc.. Haunted Mansion looks relatively plastic and cheesy, so maybe they're already running out of steam. Pirates worked well, IMO, because it was a rather original, fun action-adventure movie with some really popular stars (ORLANDO BLOOM! KYAA!!) that wasn't a sequel, which is also IMO one of the reasons why Finding Nemo has only dropped to number 6 after being out for nearly two months ^.~ I hope it wins best animated feature at the Academy Awards this year :) It would be nice. (It would also be the third year that the award has been given to a non-Disney movie, making it ironic that the company that really started movie-animation has yet to win it. Oh, well, "Brother Bear" doesn't look like it's going to win it.)

I've been downloading more manga, as it makes the world go round. A few weeks ago I only had 16 gigs of manga, but now I have 17.3. When did this happen? ?_?

Shinjo Mayu impresses me with her stupidity again. I read a new series of hers where a girl lives with her two older brothers, as their parents and other family members are dead. But shock! Ever since she found out that one of her older brothers was actually adopted (and thus not blood related), she can't control her feelings! *drumroll* Yes, she's burning in love for him. Poor girl, boo hoo hoo. :is drowning in sarcasm:

I also downloaded chapter two of "Chain of Pearls", which is by the same author of Ren-Ai Shijo Shugi. The art is nice, but occasionally the author can really get into writing somewhat odd sexual situations. ?_? In chapter 15 of Ren-Ai, the couple had sex together - which is not unusual, but they had sex in a KARAOKE ROOM. Um, I wonder if the author knows that the typical karaoke house has video camcorders in every single room? Well, Chain is starting off not quite so sexually (then again, neither did Ren-Ai), and it's cute so far ^^ the guy is funny in his sarcasm.. and he's good looking. Then again, he looks EXACTLY THE SAME as the main guy in Ren-Ai. -.-; Some manga artists just can't draw different looking main characters.. you can switch the hair and eye color, and they'd all look the same.

But, I've done karaoke too ^^ it's fun! I wish there was one (a karaoke house) in Burbank so I could go there with my friends and watch everyone make a fool of themself. Alas, it's a very Asian thing so they're really only in downtown LA (Koreatown) and other super-Asian concentrated areas.

Watase Yuu's new series, Zettai Kareshi, is SO STUPID. A girl, desperate for a boyfriend, buys an artificial one online (I kid you not). Um, it sounds like she was buying a sex toy in some online porn shop. Anyway, it comes to her house that night, and it's a fully-grown, young (naked) male android. Blah blah blah. She has to activate it by kissing the guy on the lips, which of course she does, whereupon he wakes up and says, "Hello, girlfriend!"

Me: ..................

First, this sounds like a rip off of Chobits (rather than the "female version" that Shoujomagic said it was), and it's also reallly stereotypical (the guy comes to her rescue, blah blah). And the girl is also pretty annoying. I really can't stand Watase's stuff :x Although I do really like Alice 19th right now.. the guy is great ^^ and the girl isn't so very .. typical.

AOL has this thing on right now that says "Five ways to fake a tan". Why the hell would I want to fake a tan? :P I go outside for five minutes and I get one. Blah.

I'm gonna go read a new manga now ^^ so bye now!