Yeah. I'm on stage 13. I was on a roll today! The levels were passing like bam! bam! bam!
I was surprised.
Don't worry. Ten lives is plenty.
Yeah. I'm on stage 13. I was on a roll today! The levels were passing like bam! bam! bam!
I was surprised.
Don't worry. Ten lives is plenty.
Impulse buy of the week: Pelswick
I haven't seen this in so long. It came to mind and I searched for it… to no avail. No good sources on the internet... Except for online viewing on Amazon for a fee. I cracked and bought it. So worth it. I forgot how much I loved this show.
Woke up early to a home-cooked breakfast for the first time in maybe a year. That was really nice. Also, my mother brought the failed cookies I'd made as gifts (I later replaced them with store-bought muffins) to my grandparents' place, and surprisingly, people seem to like them. Huh.
i got everything i wanted :D
merry christmas everybody! hugs for all ^-^/
Great, got Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows for the PS3, Mario Galaxy 2 for the Wii, an iPod Nano 5G, some male perfumes, tonnes of Manga (to complete my collection!) and £300.
But I really loved seeing Singin' in the Rain which was on earlier. Love that film!!
It was exhausting. But good nonetheless. I expected it to be much worse.
Finally, I could open those ugly boxes that imprisoned my dragons! Hell yeah, they look great. Now I have 14. Oh, wait, there's two more in front of me on my desk… so 16. Am I insane?
Also, I got a small lion-dragon-fish whatever thing that looks nice as well. And a cool calendar... and chocolate. I'm happy...
This morning, I woke up and went to my parents' room to dump myself on their bed (they weren't home) cause it's comfy. An unusually large cockroach fell from the ceiling, landed on the bed beside me, and scampered off. I was more amused than scared, though it is a little disturbing - but I'm trying not to think about how that happened or what would have happened if it had landed on me.
Just finished packing for my trip to India in about 18 hours. Looking forward to the long flight.
I just wanted to get outside and dig out my car to drive to work when I got a call. No work today. Instead, I should get there tomorrow morning.
Well ain't that great, now I got dressed, put on make-up and straightened my hair for nothing (yeah, that's a big deal alright!). Plus, I get to work in the morning instead of late evening/night. I won't get any sleep tonight, that's for sure.
Today has been horrible so far.
I really dislike disappointingly embarrassing revelations…
getting better , i was sick yesterday
now i can eat again and watch tv
I made the mistake of sleeping 30-50 minutes. I should have just stayed awake.
For the first few hours I ran around like I was on drugs. Thankfully it was way before the store opened, so I didn't confuse/bother/run over any customers or anything. After that everything was fine and I'm, once again, absolutely not tired.
Who needs sleep anyways.
Fuck! I am a genius!
I fixed my Internet problem by myself.
Curse whoever ruined it in the first place. Repainting my apartment brought too much troubles.
Chapter one: Oath.
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@Aegir:
Fuck! I am a genius!
I fixed my Internet problem by myself.
Curse whoever ruined it in the first place. Repainting my apartment brought too much troubles.
.. you had a problem with the internet? Didn't notice this.
well.. My Dad, his Girlfriend and I went shopping. 3 Hours. For New Year's Eve.
I have A LOT OF Alcohol now. My Dad spend 200€. lol.
And I spend 40€ on cosmetics. whut. I feel so girly now.
… And I just got banned from the AP CHannel on IRC. LOL!
Ashina, as I believe, is a story best told in comic form. There are many things I want to tell with just pictures. I am a writer as inexperienced as inexperienced gets, for this is the first time I truly "write" a serious story. English is not my first language, and being from as distant a culture as can be with English readers certainly has put me at disadvantage, not to mention I have no talent for word. Thus, my writing, translated from Vietnamese, is certainly insufficient, and might came off as rough and clumsy for English readers. However, this project might be delayed until I get enough experience to pull it off, so I decided to post the script here, to gather ideas and critique to improve it as I do other comic projects. Be warned that there is nothing but spoiler here for those who want to read Ashina as a comic.
Prologue:
! Aledias Eliades’s letter to his sister, 27/10/1982.
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My dearest sister Iris,
Kiss mother for me, and tell her I love her.
I have received the package of salt I asked you to send half a month ago. Good old salt. Few things would be greater for a Cyprian man separated from his country. Its taste is like the taste of our soil, our field, our wind, the very soul of Cypria, giving me this cozy sentiment called "home" absolutely needed for me to wrestle with the nasty weather of Gerasian land. And to wear off this increasing feeling of isolation, dear sister. This salt made me feel home, feel warm, feel accompanied, feel immersed in the familiar water of our village, and drag me out of this dark chasm called frustration. Expensive city life, various problems arose. Persistent financial crisis and pressure of conflicts drove me at times to complete disgust with life. And my spirit would have crumbled, and the cold wind would have gnawed my heart off. Zephyrus, however, is doing his own things as usual, and seems to be at the height of his spirit.
! Last week, I finally got a chance to set my feet upon the mausoleum of empress Ashina, to pay off my respect and fulfill father’s last wish, as we have longed to do. The scale of the mausoleum lived up to its name as one of nine wonders of the world. Hundred meter high, covering about 80 meters square, located in the Chaue mountain, half a mile from the ground. Indeed a great work of architecture. Flawlessly combined the highest art of sculpture and paintings as the finest product of XVII century’s craftsmanship. I was filled with amazement.
! At the main yard lied a huge cooper statue of the empress herself. Fine work, about twenty feet tall, greened by time, valiantly standing through centuries. I stood in its shadow, looking up with admiration. We are all living in the shadow of Ashina. At the pedestal of the statue carved a poem:
“Bright heart rivaling Sunlight and Moonlight
Untainted soul not ashamed with Rivers and Mountains
One sharp blade to compete with Heaven and Earth
Two naked hands to construct career of Spring and Autumn*”
The woman has rested, yet her will is still piercing the sky. Already 300 years, yet not once was the incense-smoke in her mausoleum decreased, always pervading like the overflowing aroma of Suavant flowers in the Haen street at spring-times. The world is at chaos, yet ever crowded are the visitors of this sacred temple. In the heavy, suffocating atmosphere of an upcoming world war, a terrific catastrophe impending in the air, people for even more want to escape to their spiritual world, to seek for divine protection. And to Gerasian people, so significant a meaning does the name Ashina carry. For generations after generations, that name has become a symbol, an embodiment of military might and justice. She was then a Gerasian soul more Gerasian than any, a herald of her people. None can study the Gerasian mind without studying Ashina-the very essence of this land’s culture, implanted in the sub-consciousness of its children. The native people talk about her tales, her legendary feats with a strangely passionate tone, almost incomprehensible to foreigners, mixed of overly national pride and warm hospitality.
The magnitude of her martial and political talent, as evidenced by history, leaves today men wondering if she had been alive, how would she handle to the dreadful mess that is modern world issues.
Immersed in my own thoughts about the past and the future, my feet walked on it own, and when I came to myself, the dusk has crawled. Visitors all left. I ended up at the highest floor of the mausoleum, in a worshiping chamber. Looking down from this chamber, a magnificent landscape gathered at my eyes, as beautiful as a Laphane’s painting, and raised in me was then a powerful emotion. The whole world seemed to be at my embrace. And I wanted to embrace the world. Aspiration followed aspiration, dreams went after dream, all those grandiose desires flowed into my heart with the wind. Was it also what she felt, a woman who once stood at the top of the world, when she was here, at her to-be-grave?
The wind blew violently, the clouds constantly changed their colors, like a warning of an upcoming storm of time. My eyes quickly shifted to a framed painting next to her altar, in which was her last poem recorded:
“Honor and filial duty, so dearly held
Through a whole life, adrift with fatherland
With utmost glory comes utmost burden
When the night arrives, who to rouge rosy cheek?
Years after yeas, conquests after conquests,
Blood stained is the commanding spear, crying with the Earth
Thousand of troops wielded at whim,
Looking back, only me laughing with myself
Drunken yet, o my good friend?
For evermore in vain sanity struggles.”
I read from those lines a seemingly unspoken regret. Melancholy suddenly stroke my heart, imbued in the buried desire of a heroic monarch who changed her time. Went home with a jumbled mind, filled with questions. Mid-night. Was cold and quiet. At times dreaded with the shrieks of the crows. Path to home was lonely. The wind howled yet again, sounded as doleful as the cry in bed of a lonesome wife waiting for her husband to come back from the battlefield. All those sounds and wonderings followed me into my dream that morning. A bizarre dream. So bizarre I would rather not tell it to my doctor, in case he might send me to an asylum. Even so, I can hardly ensure you that I am in the right state of mind right now. What I saw then, though almost impossible to be described in words, was our world awashed in countless streams of blood, with thousand and thousand of corpses drifting and exploding, children running and screaming in terror. All the world’s top-notch politicians’ severed heads whirled around a tornado, striking the sky reddened with lava, and at the center of that tornado…was me.
And when I was still at shock, from the sky descended a valiant, saintly knight, dressed in golden armor, hand holding a strangely shaped sword. Seemed to be female. Not yet to see her face for clear, but from her emitted an incredibly overwhelming aura, the likes of which would make an ordinary man instantly want to bow his head. She thus called to me, with a voice as stately as it is warm: “Lo, man of present. Go west for two miles, and you will find an ancient cedar tree. Move the tree, and see the forest.”
Just then I woke up, trembling and sweating with throbbing heart and stirred mind. Full of doubt, I followed the instruction of the knight. And without a doubt, what I discovered there, as breath-taking as breath-taking goes, is a secret buried for centuries, that which once brought to light, will have countries and countries shaken. And the liberals will go rampant with their most ridiculous propagandas. And all the conservatives will be brought their knees, screaming hopelessly in panic. And our lives will be profoundly changed. Our world will be turned upside down. Our common knowledge will lose its ground. So many many things we were taught about the woman called Ashina Bonaparte the empress will no longer hold value. History shall be rewritten, for what I am about to reveal to you via this letter is nothing you would find in any book of any library, or from any historian or scholar. Upon learning the truth, I was dead for a few hours. Never have I yelled like that day. Never have I laughed like that day. And never have I cried as much either. Up to this point I has only discussed this with Zephyrus and professor Ruberg Beward, but I trust you to keep this a secret until we decide about what to do with this mind-shattering discovery.
Chapter one: Oath:
! [part 1: Narrative: Omnipotent third person.]
… And I just got banned from the AP CHannel on IRC. LOL!
lol, why?
i don't visit the IRC often XD
@MDL:
lol, why?
i don't visit the IRC often XD
would like to know that, too. But well, yeah got unbanned again.
This was a stupid reason.
Not really. You were given plenty of warning mini-bans. :\
Just saying, not to be rude, but take the hint.
can someone fill me in?
from what i've seen in the one time i've been to chat, a lot of stuff can fly.
(still has horrible mental imagery of Sarus masturbating with his own severed penis)
I was looking for some Momonga fanarts (found one that… why do I keep finding naked pics of characters?)
So somehow I found this:
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My day was okay though…
@MDL:
can someone fill me in?
I'd rather not bring that here.
Module bidding has begun. I only have two of five modules to bid for, so it should be fine. I nearly had a big scare though; module types weren't what they were supposed to be, and I wasn't sure whether I'd be able to fulfill my major requirements. But I worked it out with my friend, and it should be fine. Dealing with university administration is a nightmare. Bah. Hope these mods go well next sem.
Also, my sister made me watch Justin Bieber yesterday.
nevermind then, as long as she's ok then i'm not really bothered about the details.
anyways…
sometimes i like to walk home from my voluntary work to get some extra exercise and fresh air.
i was walking home along a path like this:
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and most of it was iced up. sometimes it was even elevated, or covered an entire section of path with several inches of thickness.
but you know what's ironic? i went several miles over the ice with no trouble, but as soon as i reached the bottom of the path, i slipped on some mud.
mud that's always been there all year round. -___-
i didn't just gently slide over either. i got tossed forward so hard that i was parallel with the ground in mid-air.
i threw my bag underneath me in what i can only describe as instinct.
you know that brief instant where the time around you just seems to slow down? anybody ever get that? that's what happened.
anyways, my bag wasn't that effective in breaking my fall and i came down hard on my side and gashed my knee on the stones, cut my finger, and got covered in mud. with a few more miles left to hobble home.
I'm pissed off today, my mood is shot >=/
Every year I clean my room till it sparkles on the 31st or 30th, depending on what I am doing on the 31st. Since I will leave home pretty early tomorrow I have to do it now.
Boy, do I have a lot of random shit around here. I will have to go to the trash can multiple times to throw all that garbage out.
I also stumbled across my "memory box". Aw.
I'm leaving for Israel later today, so expect a decrease in activity for two weeks.
good day. had lots of fun, a friend spent day at my place ^_^
Also finally got my facebook back after writing them mail full of curses :|
and other than that today i collected some of publicly available data of all apforums users.
!
now be ready for Viagra spam mails :ninja:
I'm leaving for Israel later today, so expect a decrease in activity for two weeks.
ISRAEL! satans playground.
Joking aside why Israel.
good day. had lots of fun, a friend spent day at my place ^_^
Also finally got my facebook back after writing them mail full of curses :|and other than that today i collected some of publicly available data of all apforums users.
! [qimg]http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/6853/61188721.png[/qimg]
now be ready for Viagra spam mails :ninja:
How did you get that?
I've tried getting mine and all the details are wrong. Even the browser is wack. Could this be down to my location and internet source?
ISRAEL! satans playground.
Joking aside why Israel.
You just said it. It's my playground, haha.
Having gone to a Jewish school, I have a lot of friends doing gap year programs in Israel, so I figured it would be a nice opportunity to hang out with them as well as experience being alone in a foreign country. Plus, the place is pretty beautiful.
You just said it. It's my playground, haha.
Having gone to a Jewish school, I have a lot of friends doing gap year programs in Israel, so I figured it would be a nice opportunity to hang out with them as well as experience being alone in a foreign country. Plus, the place is pretty beautiful.
That sounds pretty cool.
I want to bombard you with political questions.
Bombs away, if you will, but I'm no Zephos. Plus, I'm leaving within the hour.
How did you get that?
I've tried getting mine and all the details are wrong. Even the browser is wack. Could this be down to my location and internet source?
generated links to download all vcards and then wrote a simple program to milk out info i wanted. really easy.
the question is not how, but WHY
frankly speaking i also don't know why i did that. it was mainly to kill time and partially to prove that vcard is useless and can easily be abused by spammers.
I am thinking about should I release this software to public or not.
Bombs away, if you will, but I'm no Zephos. Plus, I'm leaving within the hour.
I won't bore you with it now then. Either way enjoy the weeks in Israel.
Suit yourself, then. I'll try to live up, there, as best as I can!
I bought lots of booze, a new shirt and a new ring.
… well, only five bottles but that's plenty to get me fuzzy.
Tomorrow shall be fun~
Yeah, tomorrow will be really good. It's my last New Year's Eve with all my high school friends for now. I bought 2 bottles of Jäger and a little firework stuff (which was expensive as fuck) but it will be worth it.
Just heard that the thyroid gland half that was removed in surgery last week preventively was completely healthy.
I'm so happy right now, since there was a chance that the cancer in the other half, which was removed in July, would come back in the other half even though it only was a tiny needleprick of malignant cells in a benign tumour.
the worst day..
i punched my mother..
and now Im super bad because of that…
she whant me out of her house..(yeah..2011 looks like a NICE year for me)
My day has been fair, as of yet.
Had a pretty cool dream last night. There was a Pink Floyd concert and after it was over I overheard a girl saying that she had to walk home. I told her that that's nonsense and offered to give her a ride home, which she accepted. First though she wanted to look around in a bookstore. A little later she said lets go and I drove her home. Kind of boring but, eh, I liked it :happy: .
Nothing really else of note, except that my grandparents went back home.
@Silent:
Just heard that the thyroid gland half that was removed in surgery last week preventively was completely healthy.
I'm so happy right now, since there was a chance that the cancer in the other half, which was removed in July, would come back in the other half even though it only was a tiny needleprick of malignant cells in a benign tumour.
That's good news man .
Sorry for the crap you aparently had to go through .
i watched "hard target" today, i found it quite enjoyable by my standards. not hard to see why lance won an award for his role.
@Silent:
Just heard that the thyroid gland half that was removed in surgery last week preventively was completely healthy.
I'm so happy right now, since there was a chance that the cancer in the other half, which was removed in July, would come back in the other half even though it only was a tiny needleprick of malignant cells in a benign tumour.
That's fantastic. Congratulations! I'm really happy for you!
Just returned home.
It was great. I was the chosen driver/volunteered as driver, so I didn't drink anything, but that's fine. I don't need to to have fun :D
I still feel sick though because I ate way too much. But that's ok too. I knew that this was going to happen.
Driving around with that fairly thick fog on icy roads was another thing though. Was kinda scary on the highway.
Firework watching on the beach was awesome.
And someone told me "I hope you find a boyfriend this year. And that you'll make your way. But I'm sure you'll do"
That was nice :)
i've just woken up, it's 11:03am.
NO HANGOVER, SCORE!
Well, I've been accidentally fasting for about 24 hours. I should not have come to Israel on shabbat. The friend I was supposed to be staying with, thanks to some miscommunication, is about an hour away from his apartment. Being an idiot, I took a cab to his apartment instead of calling him first, so I stuck myself in Herzliya. My dad felt it necessary to spend way to much to get me a room at Hotel Daniel, where they serve food, but I got in too late for dinner and, thanks to having no clocks, slept in too late for breakfast. Now, I'm sitting here til check out time at 4PM (in 2 hours, since I'm on Israel time), waiting for shabbat to end so I can figure out if I should wander around Herzliya for another several hours until he comes back or find a cab that can take me over there, depending on whether or not he's returning tonight.
Morale is low, but I will persevere!
instead of spending new years day watching 3 Bowl games today, im going to the San diego Zoo for a trip during the Final Jungle Bells trip
spent the Eve though watching Marx Bros films LOL
fuck, i want to punch something i'm so frustrated.
i'm used to getting 20-30 kills every game on black ops. i'm dying all the time today.
why the fuck is my weapon sight getting shoved to the far side of the screen when i'm clearly aiming at him beforehand?
don't pull that "lol it's recoil" crap. i've used the AK47 for a while now, this is totally different to what i'm used to experiencing. it's a drastic change. somethings up.
and the spawning system is still bugged. spawning into 5 enemies = not cool.
if i play any more games today i'm going to end up throwing my controller on the floor and breaking it. for some reason they've taken away my accuracy, bastards.
My entire day…
My father looking through the newspaper and bitching about every god damn thing. I'm sorry, but I know the world sucks. Can we talk about something that isn't shitty?